I don't think this can be done with labels/names out of the box. You can do it with radio targets, e.g. <<tbl:luaerrors>> in the external file, and your link where you want it.
John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Robert Love <rblove_li...@comcast.net> wrote: > All my attempts to create an org mode link to a table in another org file > fails to find the table. Instead I’m offered to create a new heading, > which is not what I want. > > In Section 4.3 External Links I see this format: > > file:projects.org::some words text search in Org file(31) > > so my link looks like > > This is how to find error codes [[file:rst.org::tbl:luaerrors][Errors]] > > And I have this entry in the org file with the table > > #+LABEL: tbl:luaerrors > > I’ve also tried the absolute path. All advice appreciated. >
